Dr. Tracy serves as Director of the Colorado Water Center at Colorado State University. He has led program initiatives on understanding and developing sustainable water resource management practices in a number of basins across the western United States, including the western High Plains, Northern Plains, Great Basin and Pacific Northwest hydro-climatological regions.  As Director of the Colorado Water Center, he works with private, state, regional and federal entities in the development of programs that more effectively support achieving their water and environmental resource management objectives.

Lesli Ellis currently serves as Larimer County’s Community Planning, Infrastructure, and Resources Director and is leading the Water Master Plan project. She has three decades of experience working for and consulting with over 40 communities around the U.S. on long range plans and policies, codes, infrastructure projects, and open lands programs. Lesli received a Master of Urban Planning and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Washington in Seattle and a Bachelor of Environmental Design from the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Lindsay Rogers is a Water Policy Analyst at Western Resource Advocates where she advances water conservation at the municipal level to bolster water security and protect Western rivers. She facilitates local and state policy development and advises on projects to implement water-saving strategies, including graywater ordinances, waterwise landscaping programs, and integrated water and land-use planning in the West.

Bradley H. Udall is a Senior Water and Climate Research Scientist / Scholar at Colorado State University’s Colorado Water Center. His expertise includes hydrology and related policy issues of the American West, with a focus on the Colorado River. Brad was a co-author of the 2009 and 2018 National Climate Assessments and a contributing author to the 2014 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 5th Assessment. Brad has testified in both the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives on the impacts of climate change of water resources and provided input to multiple National Academy of Science panels. He has published multi peer-reviewed journal articles on the causes of the declining Colorado River flows and on the ongoing aridification of the Western US.

Esther Vincent is a professional engineer and the Director of Environmental Services at Northern Water, where she has worked since 1999. She oversees Northern Water’s water quality, water efficiency and flow monitoring programs, environmental compliance and environmental data management systems. She has served on the boards of the Grand County Water Information Network, the Big Thompson Watershed Forum and the Colorado WaterWise Council, and is an alumna of the WEco Water Leaders program.